List of the most meetings – negotiations1 on
the issue of European Diploma for National Park Poloniny
and the issue of Slovak part of UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site Primeval Beech
Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany
in 2013-2015
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Meeting of the State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic with the Military Forests
and Properties, state enterprise concerning the Slovak part of the UNESCO World Heritage
Site, held in Banská Bystrica on 26th February 2013;
Meeting on actual situation and next steps with respect to the UNESCO World Heritage
Sites, held in Bratislava on 13th May 2013;.
Meeting with stakeholders of the Poloniny NP region, held in Zboj on 14th, May 2013;
Meeting between the State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic and the ForestAgriculture Enterprise Ulič, state enterprise, hed in Ulič on 15th May 2013;
Cross-sector meeting on the European Diploma and UNESCO Worlds Heritage Site held in
Bratislava on 10th June, 2013
Meeting with local stakeholders in Nová Sedlica on October 16th, 2013;
Cross-sector meeting in the UNESCO World Heritage Site, held in Bratislava on 16th
October 2013;
Cross-sector meeting on the European Diploma a UNESCO World Heritage Site held in
Bratislava on 11th November 2013;
First meeting of the Joint Management Committee for the UNESCO World Heritage Site
and the areas awarded by the European Diploma held in Banská Bystrica on 27th September
2013;
Second meeting of the Joint Management Committee for the UNESCO World Heritage Site
and the areas awarded by the European Diploma held in Stakčín on 19th December 2013
Meeting – follow-up of the conclusions from the 2nd Common Steering Committee session
regarding European Diploma and the world natural heritage site Primeval Beech Forests of
the Carpathians (that took place in Stakčín on 19 December 2013), held in Banská Bystrica
on 14th February 2014.
Negotiations within the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic (at the levels of
directors general) - the Directorate of Nature and Landscape Protection, the Directorate of
Water Protection and the Slovak Water-Management Enterprise held in Bratislava on 17th
February 2014.
Meetings with representatives of individual associations of private owners who operate on
the territory of the world natural heritage site that were focused on information about
compensation options for limitation of ordinary operation in the terms of Amendment of
Act No. 534/2002 on nature and landscape protection, Stakčín, 7th May 2014.
Meeting of Slovak-German-Ukrainian Joint Management Committee (JMC) to coordinate
the overall management of the Joint Property Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians
(Slovak Republic and Ukraine) and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (Germany), 14th
May 2014, Bonn, Germany.
Consultation concerning the conclusions from the 38th session of the Committee –
This list does not include all the preparatory meetings and training on specific issues within the Poloniny NP
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UNESCO World Heritage (Doha, Qatar, 15th – 25th June 2014) that took place in
Bratislava on 8th July 2014.
Meetings with representatives of individual private owners associations, town mayors and
the director of LPM Ulič, š.p. for the purpose of discussion about the issue of Slovak part
of the world natural heritage site held in Nová Sedlica and Stakčín on 31st July 2014 and 1st
August 2014.
Meeting of relevant sectors to prepare a reactive monitoring mission UNESCO/IUCN held
on 22nd September 2014 in Bratislava.
Reactive monitoring mission UNESCO/IUNC in the Slovak part of the Slovak part of the
UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28th September – 9th October 2014 led by expert Dr.
Pierre Galland, Bratislava and Stakčín;
Meetings to coordinate preparation of the report to UNESCO held on 21st January 2015
and the European Diploma on 30th January 2015;
Meetings with local stakeholders (information of financing opportunities) held in Snina on
21st April 2015 and 4th May 2015,
Meeting with local self-government on building/reconstruction of nature trails held on 19th
June, 2015;
Meeting within the 1st phase of the advisory mission to prepare the 2nd phase led by the
IUCN expert held on 20th -21st July 2015;
Coordination meetings in Bratislava held on 6th August and 2nd September 2015;.
Second phase of the advisory mission led by the IUCN expert held on 14th- 18th August
2015;
Mission of the IUCN/UNESCO/Council of Europe Snina 14th – 18th September 2015;
Meeting of Slovak-German-Ukrainian Joint Management Committee (JMC) to coordinate
the overall management of the Joint Property Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians
(Slovak Republic and Ukraine) and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany – preliminary
date October 2015.
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